Statistického prostředky modelování růstových procesů z pohledu současné teorie růstu člověka

human growth, longitudinal study, pediatrics, software

The paper is focused on a concept of currently developed computer application GROWTH, designed as practical tool for pediatricians, allowing observation, evaluation and prediction of infants and teenagers growth. The application exploits data from four available longitudinal studies of human growth and novel measurements of current Czech population in semilongitudinal order. On contrary with traditional approach (percentile plots outcomming cross sectional studies) the software will be based on statistical modeling of individual growth curves using plain and mixed growth models together with information about relevant anamnestic factors.